Cooking stove or range.



PATENTBD SEPT. 1, 1903.

R. H. BABBITT, JR. COOKING STOVE 0R RANGE.

APPLICATION PILED JAN. 13, 1902.

NO MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 1, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ROLLIN I'I. BA-BBITT, JR., OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO IVEIRSTOVE COMPANY, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A-CORPORA- TION OFMASSACHUSETTS.

COOKING STOVE OR RANGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 737,813, datedSeptember 1, 1903.

Application filed January 13 1902. Serial No. 89.395. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROLLIN H. BABBITT, J r. a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in CookingStoves or Ranges, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in explaining its nature.

The invention relates especially to means for providing the ovens ofcooking stoves or ranges with a hygienic bottom.

It is well known that the bottoms of ovens of stoves and ranges as nowconstructed and used often become dirty and foul and remain so becauseof the escape of the juices of cooking food upon them and because alarge part of the surface is not visible from the open door and becauseno ready means exist for removing the scale and coating which graduallyaccumu lates thereon. Consequently there escapes into the oven duringthe cooking of food more or less unhealthy steam or gas therefrom. Itwill be seen that this result cannot well be avoided when it isconsidered that the bottom of the oven is also generally the flue-plateand therefore a permanent immovable part of the stove which cannot beremoved for the purpose of being cleaned.

My invention consists in providing the ovens of stoves or ranges with abottom which is made removable. I am enabled to accomplish this becauseI do not use the bottom as a flue-plate. The flue-plate is stillretained, but it serves the purpose merely of a flue-plate and supportfor the real bottom of the oven. This oven-bottom is made of metal ofthe full size of the oven within its walls and so as to be movableoutwardly therefrom through the doorway of the oven in order that it maybe removed from the oven when necessary for cleaning its surface. Amovable bottom of this character is also desirable for placing articlesto be cooked in the oven, for removing them from the oven, and forpermitting the bottom into the oven and being held upon the movablebottom may be inspected at any time by moving the movable bottom outwardand can be in the same way removed from it. The said movable bottom iscombined with means for holding it level when partially withdrawn fromthe oven and also with means for preventing juices which may fallagainst the sides of the oven from falling upon the flue-plate,the wallsof the oven having inclines which serve to guide said escaping juicesonto the bottom.

I will now describe the invention in detail in conjunction with thedrawings, forming a part of this specification, wherein-- Figure 1 is aview in vertical section of a range having an oven flue-plate andmovable bottom of my improved construction. Fig. 2 is a view in verticalsection upon the dotted line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

The invention is applicable to any of the usual types of stoves andranges, and it is not necessary for me to describe one in detail.

In the drawings the oven A has the usual entrance or doorway a, which isclosed by a door B.

C is the usual flue beneath the oven and a is the flue-plate whichseparates the oven from it and which acts as a support for the bottom Dof the oven. This bottom is made of metal, preferably sheet metal, asthat provides a surface which is less readily attacked by juices than acast-iron surface. I prefer that the oven-bottom have a raised rim (1about its outer edge in order that the juices which flow upon it may beretained upon its surface, and I also prefer that the bottom be of aboutthe size'of the oven and so that it may be moved upon the support athrough the oven-entrance out of and into its normal position upon thesupport in order that it may be entirely removed from the stove for thepurpose of being seen and cleansed in the open at will, and also inorder that it may be partially withdrawn to a position favorable to theplacing of articles upon it and then with said articles moved within theoven, and also that it may be used to move articles from the oven forthe purpose of inspection or for the purpose of turning on the bottomand then be returned with them to the oven, and also for the furtherpurpose of permitting the ready removal of such articles from the ovenby withdrawing them from the oven sufficiently outside it to permit themto be readily taken from the oven without danger of burning the hands orother part of the person. The movable bottom is also a desirable adjunctin that it permits the placing of an article to be cooked in that partof the oven which is best fitted for the especial kind of cooking whichis desired for it.

To hold the bottom from tipping when partially withdrawn, I havearranged to extend over its side edges the horizontal shoulders aaiwhich project from the side walls at aheight above the support asufficiently to provide spaces for the side edges of the bottom. Theseshoulders may also be arranged with an inclined upper surface a for thepurpose of directing falling juices upon the surface of the bottom andpreventing them from reaching the support and flue-plate, and the rearplate of the stove may be provided with a similar inclined shoulder forthis last-named purpose, and in-Fig. 2 I have represented it as soequipped.

I prefer that the raised edge of the bottom be sufficiently stiff toreinforce the flat portion of the bottom within it, and for this purposeit may be folded backupon itself or doubled, as represented in Fig. 1. Ialso prefer that the front edge of the bottom be furnished in additionwith a cast-iron plate riveted to it having formed upon it a handle (1whereby the bottom may be grasped upon the opening of the oven-door andmoved.

It will be seen that this invention not only provides a bottom to anoven which may be removed, cleaned, and replaced, and thus make the ovenwholesome at all times and hygienic, but it also serves two otherpurposesnamely, as a means for assisting in the placing, handling, andremoval of the food to be cooked and as a guard for maintaining theWholesomeness of the upper surface of the flue-plate, as the movableovenbottom receives all the juices or fluids and prevents them fromreaching the upper surface of the flue-plate as well.

In some instances the removable bottom may have a handle upon its backside as well as its front, and this will facilitate its use and providea means for transferring from a table to the oven and vice versaarticles to..be cooked.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. Astove or range having abake-oven the bottom or flue plate of which isprovided with an auxiliary drip -receiving plate made to cover thebottom of the oven, and which plate has a raised rim or edge, andshoulders pro-' jecting from the walls of the oven forming guides inwhich the raised edges or rim of the drip-receiving plate are containedsubstantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A stove or range having a bake-oven the bottom or flue plate of whichis provided with an auxiliary drip -receiving plate made to cover thebottom of the oven and having a raisedrim or edge, and shouldersextending from and along the wall of the oven forming recesses in whichthe raised edges or rim of the drip-receiving plate are contained, whichshoulders have drip-deflecting surfaces, substantially as and for thepurposes set forth.

ROLLIN H. BABBITT, JR. \Vitnesse's F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, J. M. DOLAN.

